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Jonathan Kozol Quotes

Childhood ought to have at least a few entitlements that aren't entangled with utilitarian considerations. One of them should be the right to a degree of unencumbered satisfaction in the sheer delight and goodness of existence in itself.

Jonathan Kozol

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: September 5, 1936

Topics

Childhood Satisfaction Goodness Right

The last two years we got beat in this round. They came out with the motivation to win.

Jimmy Haynes

Win Motivation Two Years Out Beat

But we must take other steps, such as increasing conservation, developing an ethanol industry, and increasing CAFE standards if we are to make our country safer by cutting our reliance on foreign oil.

Jim Costa

Country Oil Cafe Standards Industry

My guess is more reporters probably vote Democrat than Republican - just because I think reporters are smart.

Jerry Springer

Smart Think Just Because Vote More

I became a children's author by accident. As far as I'm concerned, I write for everybody.

Jerry Spinelli

Children Write Accident Far I Write

It is sufficient to say, what everybody knows to be true, that the Irish population is Catholic, and that the Protestants, whether of the Episcopalian or Presbyterian Church, or of both united, are a small minority of the Irish people.

John Bright

People Small Church Be True True

I shopped at J. Crew in high school, I studied computer science. I was a nerd-nerd, now I'm a music-nerd.

Mayer Hawthorne

Science School High School Now High

The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.

John Locke

Good Evil More Human Principle Than

When I first started recording, I was told by all of the experts in the business that the kind of music that I was doing was never going to sell. That disco was the coming thing and it was going to take over and what I was interested in was a minor sideline.

Tom Scholz

Business Music Doing Disco Kind

We all get given these bodies, and they're all fascinating and different... I wouldn't want to be without the wrinkles.

Miranda Hart

Wrinkles Want Without Get Different

The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Luigi Pirandello

History Ideas Mankind The History Of

I want a guy who is masculine, good with his hands and able to build stuff and who has survival skills. Facial hair is a big turn-on. Most of the kids I hang out with in New York are hipster arty types, but I like a stronger, more physically imposing man - like a lumberjack.

Chloe Sevigny

Good Man New York Hair Survival New

Most of my books have always worked through juxtaposition, jumping through different point of views and time.

Colson Whitehead

Time Always Through Point Jumping